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...work there was - and still is. Fifty years after Brown the effort to desegregate schools in the U.S. and grant equality to African-Americans is far from over, and while there has been real progress, blacks still lag behind whites in income and education, and some school districts are as segregated today as they were before Brown. The issue today: How has Brown succeeded or failed...
That's a scary thought. After crushing the 1997 Masters with a 12-stroke win to become, at 21, Augusta's youngest champion, Tiger went through a similar drought, going 28 months without winning a major. He followed that lag with the Tiger Slam: four straight titles, from the 2000 U.S. Open through the 2001 Masters. Like Wayne Gretzky and Michael Jordan before him, Tiger has blurred perspective. When only four golfers have won more majors than you have, at 28, honors like five straight Player of the Year awards are no longer good enough...
Away on intersession, jet lag seemed a good reason to stay in the hostel our first night to play poker—on the condition that all of that night’s winnings go to the next night’s alcohol. You see, I told my self, gambling can be for a good cause.The excuses quickly became less valid: it’s a great way to kill an hour after dinner, or before heading to a movie. Finding a quarter in the street is one-twentieth of a buy-in; might as well chip in the other...
...haven't seen since the 1960s. We think inflation stays at 1% to 2% and long-term interest rates stay under 5%. Short-term rates are lower than they should be. I'd be voting to raise them now. The only thing not back is jobs, which always lag...
TIME: But the lag is of record length and creating a political issue. What makes you sure we'll get a real jobs recovery...